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I'm hoping that Zvesda bring out a little Spitfire I, Lysander and Gladiator. I did find a Ju-87B and a Henschel plus some Russian aircraft, but I like the Battle of France types. These are wargame aircraft, but they look nice painted up.

Joined: May 3rd, 2011, 8:05 pmPosts: 1767Location: Darlington. Home of the Railways

iggie wrote:

What scale are they? They look very smart indeed and if less than 1/72 then they are even more impressive!

They are all 1/144th kits. I had a couple of the Revell kits, which are really old and almost impossible to build these days, despite being in nice new boxes.

Sweet have 3 Hurricane sets. Battle of Britain Aces, Early ( Fabric wing ) Hurricanes and Desert Hurricanes with a small air filter. These sets include 2 very nice Hurricane models and a Cartograph Decal sheet with up to 8 choices. I bought a few of these.

Next, I got a free Zvesda Kit with SAM and used this to use an extra set of decals. Since then I have picked up about a dozen of these kits and have almost used up all the Sweet decals. As the Hurricanes are part of a War game set for the Battle for France 1940, they were joined by a Fairey Battle, a Ju-87B and a small Henschel. A Blenheim and Ju-52 are produced in this set, but they are 1/200th. Mixed scales for all models, in fact. Figures 1/72, Aircraft 1/144th and 1/200th, and vehicles are to 1/100th. Bit of a shame there, as the vehicles would go well with the figure sets. I must add at this point that the figure sets are well worth looking out as they are superb. The best I've made in this scale. Look out for the Aircraft Figure sets, too, as these are to 1/72nd and will look nice woth your model aircraft.

They are all 1/144th kits. I had a couple of the Revell kits, which are really old and almost impossible to build these days, despite being in nice new boxes.

IMO there is at least one exemption to that. Revell´s 144 Mustang looks quite nice for it´s age.I built it almost OOB, except for the air intakes and the hot air exit, which I opened up.Of course it can´t keep up with Sweet´s P-51, but it only costs a small sum, and the decals are good, anyway.Revell gives you decals for one of Yeager´s Glamourus (have I misspelled?) Glen´s.

There was still masking on the canopy, and no main undercarriage, yet, when I took the snaps.

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